Gin and Topic

With Plastic Free Month drawing to an end and the UK hitting record temperatures earlier this week, it seems fitting that we’re talking about Plastic Pollution.

We’ll be joined by Teresa Perez, a research associate at the Royal Holloway, University of London. 

She’ll be talking about the work that she was involved with as part of Cambridge circular plastic centre as we explore how recycling has come to be seen as the best way to reduce plastic waste in South Africa, and what we can learn to help tackle plastic waste worldwide.

Of course we couldn’t pair this topic with anything other than a South African gin, so we’re drinking Cape Fynbos.

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Whitby Gin

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What can you tell from a fossil?

What about how the animal moved, fed, or interacted with others?

This week’s guest, Emily Rayfield a Professor in Palaeobiology from the University of Bristol, is going to talk to us all about how computers have helped our understanding of these extinct animals.

Animals like the ammonite on the bottom of this week’s gin bottle from the fossil rich beach of Whitby.

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Sainsburys’ Taste the Difference Blackfriars Gin

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We’ve been high street shopping this week, for both our gin, and the topic.

First to Sainsbury’s for their Taste the Difference Blackfriars Gin, and then on to WHSmiths for a Mills and Boon book!

This week we’re talking with Dr Val Derbyshire, from the University of Derby, about Mills and Boon romance novels. And the question we'll be asking is simply, whether or not we should read them?

So, listen up and don’t be too quick to judge

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Caleño

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We’re back!

And leading the way with our first episode is Dr Shima Barakat, Director of the Entrepreneurship for Sustainability Programme at the University of Cambridge.

She’ll be talking to us about Leading for Sustainability: What do we need to lead a transformation towards sustainable systems? While we ease ourselves gently back in with a non-alcoholic glass of Caleño.

And of course, we’ll be questioning all those business buzzwords...

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At the end of a series, Ben has a lot of evidence to show quite how unprofessional our approach to this podcast truly is.

And because we like to over share, we thought you might enjoy listening to some of the behind the scenes stuff that Ben has to cut out.

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Another series over, another box of empty bottles to recycle. And as each one lands in the bin, we're reminded about each conversation that we had.

But, just like not being able to drink the whole bottle of gin in one sitting, we couldn't include all of the conversation in the main episodes. So Ben has been keeping the leftovers safe for us

So that we could put together a little extra episode for you

Enjoy

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Welcome to the Gin & Topic Tasting Room

This week we're tasting Sharish gin from Portugal

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